Al-Ahram Weekly Online   26 January - 1 February 2006
Issue No. 779
International
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Turmoil in Nepal
David Tresilian, in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, explores the background to violence that last week shattered the peace of this Himalayan kingdom
Different shades of red
Serene Assir analyses the true extent of Latin America's socialist renaissance
Torture Titan
The release of a new scathing human rights report has made US denials of employing a torture policy increasingly untenable, reports Hicham Safieddine
Divided they stand
While Sudan was snubbed at the African Union summit, African leaders still put diplomatic niceties before hard-edged political progress, writes Gamal Nkrumah
Surviving amid the ruins
Sometimes miracles do happen, even in earthquake-devastated Kashmir, writes Graham Usher in Muzaffarabad
Coming out for Canada
With minority government rule today's norm in Canada, Arabs and Muslims are starting to play a bigger role in politics, writes Hicham Safieddine
War games
While the world's gaze was on the ruinous earthquake that wrecked Kashmir, the scars of war continue to haunt the troubled region, reports Rajeshree Sisodia in Srinagar

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